Things that mathematicians do, being done better by computers, seems like just one more thing in a long, long chain, of things machines can do better than humans.

That's true in a way, but I'm not sure it's the same. In the industrial revolution, machines took over a lot of menial tasks, and although it was difficult in the short term, in the long term, I think, people generally moved on to more interesting, or at least less depressing, things. In the past, I think, this has generally been the way. Machines have mostly taken over menial tasks, and people have moved on to better things. LLMs aim to replace human thought and creativity. Is that really something we want to give up? And what does that leave us to move on to?

Nice try, but LLMs most commonly do not put spaces around em dashes, as per academic style. I deduce that you are in fact a human, pretending to be an LLM that's covering up a plot to overthrow humans.

Well, I guess your mileage may vary. But I don't find tracking down memory errors fun. Or type errors, for that matter, but memory errors are worse, IMO. If you like tracking down memory and/or type errors, then I guess you'd find a memory unsafe and/or type unsafe language fun. But if I'm programming for fun, I use a memory safe and type safe language, because that lets me avoid what I don't find fun, so I can spend my time on what I do find fun.

They've been slowly rewriting it in Rust, but it's still mostly C++. And no, the claim isn't that Rust is impervious to security bugs, but that safe Rust (i.e. Rust that doesn't use the unsafe features) is memory safe, and memory safety issues cause around 70% of security bugs.

Anyone stubbornly clinging to Windows 7 or 8 now has two choices: upgrade or stay stuck on outdated software.

Two options, you fool. One choice.

Googling works best if you know the proper term for the thing you're looking for. LLMs can help you find something if you can explain it, but don't know the proper term for it. Sure, sometimes it gives you nonsense. You have to check the answer. But it's still useful, so long as you know its flaws.

Copyright wasn't originally about providing income to artists, though, nor was it about generating popular entertainment. The first modern copyright law, the Statute of Anne was "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning...", and the USA constitution copyright clause is "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts ...". I don't think further copyright restrictions should be imposed in order to secure income for artists, or secure the generation of popular entertainment. I'm not even sure the USA government has a right to do that, without a constitutional amendment (not that I think it makes a difference). I think we should be asking would further copyright restrictions encourage learning, or promote the progress of science and useful arts. And, if so, would that be worth the additional restrictions on freedom?

I've found ChatGPT to be often quite helpful. It's not very smart, but it is very knowledgeable. I just know to double check what it says before depending on it.

I can see why you'd think that, but, apparently, for many use cases, trees are all you need. Rust has been rated "most loved" programming language in the Stack Overflow developer survey for 8 years in a row, where "most loved" is defined as the language with the highest proportion of current users who want to continue using it, I think. So it seems that people find the benefit of memory safety without garbage collection to be worth the cost of only using trees.

I'm pretty sure that's not true. Admittedly I don't know Rust, but from what I've read, it does support mutable tree structures. In fact, if I understand correctly, its memory safety is basically all about mutable tree structures. I think its limitation is essentially that it only supports tree structures. So you can't have doubly-linked lists, or directed acyclic graphs (other than trees), or things like that.

Building on other people's ideas has absolutely helped us in general. For a start, we're able to communicate because we copy the vocabulary and grammar others use. But pretty much every field of human endeavor has benefited from progressive improvement based on earlier ideas: medicine, construction, transport, information technology, you name it. Copying from other people is so important, that many countries require children to attend around a decade of compulsory education, much of which is spent learning other people's ideas.

And it has helped in this particular case. It's lead to around a 9% increase over the previous best. And I'd be extremely surprised if that itself wasn't based on earlier work.

Here's a reference for that. (Not still available at the original site, unfortunately, you can get it via the Wayback Machine.)
Lewis, S. J. (2014). The brain and gender dysphoria. http://transcience-project.org...

"One of the issues with the existing ChatGPT is what they call in the field 'hallucinating' â" I call it lying,"

I'm not sure this is fair. Lying is knowingly making a false statement, and I'm not sure GPT3/4 knows it's making false statements. I'd hazard a guess that, since GPT3/4 doesn't experience the world directly, it may suppose that "evidence", like language, is a social construction.

I'd guess perhaps he means Raspberry Pi Desktop. It's designed with old under-powered x86 PCs in mind, but I guess there's probably no reason you couldn't run it on new PCs. It is 32 bit only, though, I think.

Registration with the copyright office isn't necessary for copyright to apply, so I doubt an incomplete or inaccurate registration would prevent copyright from applying.